I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months
Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.
The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
Where God is not glorified, that place is sick
Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.
It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.
God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.
The Universal Presence is a fact. God is here. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who love has for thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us. We have within us the ability to know Him if we will but respond to His overtures.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.
If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.
We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.
Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.
Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.
God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.
Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.
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